Something to dim the sparkle of DOST-ASTI’s Diwata

OUR editorial on Easter Sunday was fittingly joyful and triumphal. We congratulated DOST-ASTI, the UP Diliman people involved in the great project and, of course, the team of Filipino scientists working on the DIWATA microsatellite project, whose DIWATA-1 was successfully launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA, on Holy Wednesday, March 23.

The launch of Diwata-1 “is the culmination of a research program of the Philippine Department of Science and Technology (DOST) begun in 2014 to develop the necessary local expertise in space technology and allied fields in science and engineering. The PhilMicrosat Program is being implemented by several departments in the University of the Philippines-Diliman and DOST’s Advanced Science and Technology Institute (ASTI).”